Military Families Support Group
Today's military family faces a lifestyle that is comprised of frequent deployments, which results in increased family separations. This often proves to be a stressful challenge for military families. This community is dedicated to the families that are dealing with the unique challenges of distance and military-related stress.
When my husband went overseas we made boxes and went around to the schools to talk to the principals and see if it was ok, then made a letter for the teacher about how we were doing this to cheer the guys up, we gave them a deadline and then went and picked the letters up. At the local school here, the teachers made it into their curriculum and the ones that were to young to write, drew pictures. We told the teachers to give us the school address that way if one of the soliders wanted to write back they could. I decorated a pretty big box and it was almost full, alot of the kids wrote more than one letter or drew more than one picture. We gathered all the letters together and sent them to their commanding officer so that they could be distibuted. Thought you guys might like trying that, it makes you feel like you are helping and doing a good deed at the same time, because sadly we have soliders who don't receive letters from home. I'd hate to be the only guy standing in line without a letter at mail call. You could also get your local churches to write letters and they could include their address so if the solider wanted to write back he could. Just a thought and I hope it makes some of you feel better.
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It is a site set up to be used to send letters & needed items to the troops. The site has a video you can watch online that shows how it works. My husband just got back right before Christmas from his 2nd tour in Iraq & they are slated to go back March 2008. I chose to use contacts from my husband's brigade, while he was there. I liked feeling like I was helping him take care of his boys but, you can choose from about a thousand contacts the majority I think are NCOs or Officers. It covers all branches of the service too. All the info you need is posted. My husband said all the people who use any soldier make a huge difference because there were a lot who wouldn't have gotten a piece of mail for the whole year they are over there. I have sent snacks (beef jerky went over really well), newspapers, sports magazines, socks, razors, and like Bama did lots of cards & letters from all over the community. It's great & if you send to a unit that has female soldiers all you have to do is put any female soldier on the package & it will be distributed to them. If your interested in supporting our troops but don't know when, where, or how check out the site. God Bless our men & women in uniform & the families that serve with them.